As Cantor Sussman sermonized the story of Noah at last Friday’s Shabbat, the word “survivor” kept surfacing to mind. No, not the Survivor Realty Show, but the thought of one man and his family and those animals that he chose to save.
We are all survivors of our own lives. If we look into our pasts, we would find a history of survivors. For here we are. We are a people, a culture and a community whose spirit will not be denied.
Temple Shirat Shalom is an example of survivorship. The past found us unhappy with our worship. It would have been much easier to drift away from our religion. We could have abandoned our spiritual community. But then Judaism would take the fall. With the numbers of our faith dwindling around the world, we would not let that happen.
So we worship as our ancestors did before us. We come together each week to pray in comfort, peace, freedom and harmony. And wherever we are, we are a joyful group. We have weathered the storm … and we have survived.
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